I started going through perimenopause when I was 29 and the anger still landed in my mid-40s. It's almost like we found this new easy thing to blame our difficulties on which means that we don't have to take a much much deeper look into how we're running things, she says. Every middle age woman I know is carrying such a kind of complex burden of care work because they are holding down hugely valued working roles as well as dealing with a responsibility to stay pretty somehow and thin.
We're in between seasons of How We Live Now and Katherine is in the midst of talking about her new book Enchantment in radio and podcast interviews. We wanted to share one of these conversations with you in the How We Live Now podcast feed.
In this episode of The Shift with Sam Baker, Sam and Katherine talk about Katherine’s midlife autism diagnosis, why she believes we’re living through the burnout decade and how to wrest back control of our lives from our work.
Find all the episodes of the The Shift with Sam Baker here: https://podfollow.com/the-shift-on-life-after-40-with-sam-baker
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